I hate this software so bad

Here am I just venting because I have nothing else to do with my life but stay late, not creating value for my clients or solving issues that matter but trying to get this disaster of software to work.
The number one reason why I want to quit engineering is that I have to use this software. I hate it so bad, is so unstable and everything that it promises to accomplish falls way short off, I don't get it. so sick of working hours on end to achieve nothing and then having to eat those hours myself, time that I could have spent with family or doing something productive instead of dealing with this disaster.  

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  • To be fair. The modeling features and engine are excellent, very useful and with a big potential.
    I feel that the procedures and functions for BIM are also great.

    What is a nightmare is annotating and creating drawing documentation. Unfortunately still an important thing for producing and invoicing the project. There are still a lot of functions missing here that are necessary for submitting the project according to national guidelines. Mainly in the profile annotation. Even though we have already sent many, many service tickets and talked to managers on the Bentley side.
    What we did in the old software (I know InRoads) was clear, fixed and we could rely on it. Today, I am not sure if the value of the annotation is mathematically correct, I am not sure if everything will be in order after opening the drawing, and if I want to send it to someone who does not have ORD, I have problems. Regardless of the fact that the schema changes in new versions and what we have laboriously set up for users, it sometimes does not work in the new version.
    And it's already been 5 years since the first version was released. Some of our customers have been paying expensive maintenance for years and prefer to use 10-year-old software. It is not sustainable for long. We are not magic.

  • I agree precisely as regards the drawing production side of things. The modeling aspect is quite good and quite beneficial, but relying upon plan drawings for accurate information has been a bit more than a great challenge. As regards BIM, we should really refer to the notion of such things in roadways and bridges as CIM; that is "Construction Information Management" to separate what we do from the buildings side of things (IMO). Phenomenologicaly, there are quite many differences in such regards. 

    Mark

    Mark Anthony Plum
    Chief Technology Officer

    1601 N.W. Expressway, Suite 400
    Oklahoma City, OK  73118
      
  • Most of my clients are state DOTs, and not likely to shift over to model-based submissions for a decade or more. Even then, the contractors are going to want plan sheets (at least around here in flyover country). The modeling has a lot of potential, but we are probably going to need to produce actual plan sets for the rest of my career. Plans production has always been a large part of our budgets, and the plans production capabilities of ORD are still not reliable enough to count on, from everything I have seen.

    Heck, how many versions in were we before ORD was able to produce end-area volumes for earthwork?

    MaryB

    Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918
    Power InRoads 08.11.09.918
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2

        

  • Remember that the rest of the world have already started moving that way. I appreciate that a lot of the focus here is requirements for the US DOTs, but those limitations don't exist for the dozens of other markets already mandated with Digitial Engineering delivery.

    Regards,

    Mark


    OpenRoads Designer 2022 R3 (10.12)  |  Microstation 2023  |  ProjectWise CE 3.4

  • Totally agree. One of the worst parts to me too is, by the time you get to plan production, your files have so many references, models, dependencies, etc. that increase processing time. In plan production I constantly need to switch between many sheet drawings to make edits. InRoads it was instant, now it can take up to 30 seconds to open a drawing. That adds up. And even within the drawings, just not nearly as snappy as InRoads. So frustrating.